 Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...truly self-reliant opinion (£, 278); and he warns that by failing to abide by our own impressions we "shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" (£, 259). Moreover, the threat of social obligations or debts is directly absorbed into the figure... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...out on your own, he says, or "tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Nixon has this self -improving mania: the very choice of a framework for his book reflects it. As with... | |
 | Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 pages
...Menschen, und beschwörend hebt er die Bedeutung dieser Wahrnehmung der eigenen Originalität hervor: „There is a time in every man's education when he...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, äs his portion; that though the wilde universe is füll of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can... | |
 | Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) - 2003 - 268 pages
...to achieve this tenacity, "to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" (italics added) (27). Invoking his culture's attention to the ignominy of begging, Emerson presents... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man-s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 pages
...is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. In my saying Emerson is here enacting as well as describing a scene of humbling or shaming, I mean... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...Genius oí architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. Thomas Jefferson (1781) There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) 1. The Tradition of American Classicism Architectural theory in the United... | |
 | Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 pages
...is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned... | |
 | Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Imagine realizing that whenever you feel envy, you are only demonstrating an ignorance of your own... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2(J"]) Emerson was once caricatured as a "Transparent fc=l Eye-Ball" - quite apt in light of this comment.... | |
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